Hunter Lewis
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER & CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
Hunter Lewis is best known as one of two co-founders and former CEO of Cambridge Associates LLC, an investment firm that has advised research universities and colleges representing over three- quarters of U.S. higher education endowment assets, foundations, cultural organizations, international organizations and other non- profit institutions, as well as high net worth families. Cambridge Associates is now a global firm with offices and clients around the world and $2.6 trillion in assets under advisement as of Hunter’s departure in 2018. Cambridge Associates’ services are generally available to very large institutional or private investors.
As a co-founder of Cambridge Associates, Hunter also became a co- inventor (along with colleagues and clients) of what became known as the American university investment model. This gave American university endowment funds for many years some of the highest investment returns in the world among institutional investors, which was soon noticed and emulated, particularly in its use of what came to be called alternative investments.
Hunter has written eleven books on economics and moral philosophy, including the widely acclaimed Are the Rich Necessary? (“Highly provocative and highly pleasurable.”—New York Times). He has also contributed to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the Times of London, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and numerous websites such as Forbes.com as well as being featured in the Financial Times and other media including national television and radio.
In addition, he has served on boards and committees of sixteen national and global not-for-profit organizations, including environmental organizations.